Scorecard<\/a><\/p>\nAfter Japan elected to field, their new-ball bowlers made early inroads as Kai Wall struck in consecutive overs to remove Zachary Carter (15) and Kunal Tilokani (0), reducing West Indies to 42\/2 inside nine overs.<\/p>\n
What followed was a brutal counter-attack from the Windies. Tanez Francis played the anchor to perfection with a superb unbeaten 122 from 148 balls, while Shamar Apple provided the firepower, blasting a 124 off just 65 balls lower down the batting order. The pair piled on the runs to take West Indies to a commanding total of 346.<\/p>\n
Japan never found momentum in their chase. The Windies bowlers struck at regular intervals, and R\u2019Jai Gittens ripped through the top order with four wickets, leaving Japan reeling at 54\/7.<\/p>\n
A brief stand between Sekine and Waugh added 39, the highest partnership of the innings, but it was only a short delay. Once Sekine was bowled by Lawes and Waugh fell to McKenzie after a fighting 100-ball stay, the rest followed quickly.<\/p>\n
Eventually, the West Indies sealed a thumping 229-run victory, finishing their warm-ups in emphatic fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"West Indies v Japan, United Cricket Club Ground, Windhoek Scorecard After Japan elected to field, their new-ball bowlers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[199,335,6897,340,6892,349,206,195,6893,205,6889,6901,203,6891,198,6896,6888,6895,6898,6900,6894,6899,6887,6890,106],"class_list":{"0":"post-21999","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-zimbabwe","8":"tag-cricket-headlines-today","9":"tag-cricket-live-score","10":"tag-cricket-match-live-score","11":"tag-cricket-scorecard-live","12":"tag-cricket-world-cup-2026","13":"tag-cricket-world-cup-live-score","14":"tag-cricket-world-cup-news","15":"tag-icc","16":"tag-icc-cricket-news","17":"tag-icc-cricket-updates","18":"tag-icc-under-19-world-cup","19":"tag-icc-youth-tournaments","20":"tag-international-cricket-news","21":"tag-junior-cricket","22":"tag-latest-cricket-news","23":"tag-today-cricket-match-score","24":"tag-u19-cricket-world-cup-2026","25":"tag-u19-live-score-today","26":"tag-under-19-cricket-fixtures","27":"tag-under-19-cricket-highlights","28":"tag-under-19-cricket-live-score","29":"tag-under-19-cricket-results","30":"tag-under-19-cricket-world-cup","31":"tag-youth-cricket","32":"tag-zimbabwe"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}